Commutative Algebra and Invariants of Groups
Lecture hours/location: Tue/Thu 10:30-11:45, LH4
Instructor: Manoj Kummini.
Email: mkummini AT cmi DOT ac DOT in.
http://www.cmi.ac.in/~mkummini/index.html
Office: Room FR-3.
Office Hours: Thursdays 0900-1015
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Course description:
Textbook: D. J. Benson, Polynomial Invariants of Finite Groups,
London Mathematical Society Lecture Notes No. 190, Cambridge University
Press.
Additional references:
R. P. Stanley,
Invariants Of Finite Groups and Their Applications to Combinatorics
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (New Series), vol. 1, no. 3, 1979.
Grading: Assignments (40%), Oral examination (30%)
Class presentation (30%).
Prerequisites: Commutative algebra, at the level of
Atiyah-Macdonald, Introduction to Commutative Algebra Chapters 1-8
and 11 or Serre, Local Algebra, Chapters I-III (except Sections
II.A.3 and III.C).
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